Members of the Flemington Neshanock Base Ball Club play baseball according to 19th-century rules. The uniforms and equipment are precise replicas of period gear.

Written by

Bill Nutt
| For the Asbury Park Press

"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious."

- Walt Whitman

Whitman wrote those lines in 1846. If he were alive today, the poet who later lived in Camden probably wouldn't recognize baseball as it's played in the major leagues. ...